Axalon,
In the process of retrieving the necessary messages, I happened to try the
internet logged in as root (which I hadn't tried yet) and it worked fine.
Should have tried this sooner, I guess. But I still get the same problems
when logged in with either of my two user accounts.
So the data below is from attempts from the non-working user account. Of
course, as user, I could not use ifconfig or route to determine their
output. And, since the root account is working properly, I assume that their
output from the root account would be irrelevant, so I have not included it.
How shall I go about getting the user accounts to work like the root one is?
OK, here is a relevant exerpt from var/log/messages from the nonworking user
account "Jeremy":
Dec 1 07:42:09 localhost PAM_pwdb[614]: (kde) session opened for user
Jeremy by (uid=0)
Dec 1 07:44:52 localhost pppd[684]: pppd 2.3.8 started by Jeremy, uid 501
Dec 1 07:44:52 localhost pppd[684]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 1 07:44:52 localhost pppd[684]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Dec 1 07:44:59 localhost pppd[684]: Remote message: Login ok
Dec 1 07:44:59 localhost kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Dec 1 07:44:59 localhost kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Dec 1 07:45:03 localhost pppd[684]: local IP address 216.96.114.233
Dec 1 07:45:03 localhost pppd[684]: remote IP address 216.96.114.225
Dec 1 07:45:06 localhost pppd[684]: local IP address 216.96.114.233
Dec 1 07:45:06 localhost pppd[684]: remote IP address 216.96.114.225
Dec 1 07:45:52 localhost pppd[684]: Terminating on signal 15.
Dec 1 07:45:52 localhost pppd[684]: Connection terminated.
Dec 1 07:45:52 localhost pppd[684]: Connect time 1.0 minutes.
Dec 1 07:45:52 localhost pppd[684]: Sent 766 bytes, received 1115 bytes.
Dec 1 07:45:52 localhost pppd[684]: Exit.
Dec 1 07:46:35 localhost PAM_pwdb[614]: (kde) session closed for user
Jeremy
Dec 1 07:46:35 localhost kdm[459]: Cannot open server authorization file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/A:0-OmlKJZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Network is unreachable
>It's not the modem lets just everybody take that off the list, were the
>modem flaky he'd have speratic(yep ax's spelling sucks) connection to
>sites outside his isp.
>
>enable the debug for pppd and kppp (we're interested in the "remote ip"
>"local ip", send portion of var/log/messages with these)
>also the output of "ifconfig ppp0" "route -n" and
>contents of "/etc/resolv.conf"
>
